What The Amazing Race Should Be

Dear The Amazing Race producers,

The Amazing Race is an incredible concept and opportunity for anyone with a knack for traveling and adventures. It’s also exciting and motivating for viewers at home to get up and travel. This show doesn’t just attract people that are eligible to be in the race, however - it also attracts kids who are under 21 years old. The age limit restricts many people from joining The Amazing Race when they are very interested in the show. This is why we’re suggesting a parent-child race for the upcoming seasons.

An Amazing Race with parent-child teams may seem like it would be difficult to pull off, considering the liability risks of the challenges with under-age participants, but that's exactly why the parent should be with the child. The parent will have to approve and sign a waiver for themselves and their children. The parents will be able to fly with their children, and to navigate through foreign countries, supervising and protecting their children in the race. The speed bumps, detours, and road-blocks they have now might be too hard for teens to complete, so for the parent-child race, the challenges will have to reasonably adapt to the teens’ abilities in order to keep the parents from being in charge of absolutely everything; still, the challenges will be just as fun, exciting, and challenging as they are currently, even if a bit more age appropriate.

The age range for the kids in The Amazing Race should be 14 to 17 years-old. Fourteen year olds are mature enough that the challenges could still be reasonably difficult, and the age cutoff should be seventeen because it’s the last year teens qualify as minors.

Parent-child teams are currently on The Amazing Race, but the children on the teams are adults that are 21 years old or older. There should be a parent-child version of The Amazing Race with the children ranging only from 14 to 17 years of age because, in many families, when the child is old enough to be in The Amazing Race, the parent is too old, and not physically able to compete. Families may never get an opportunity together like this past this age range.

There should be parent-child seasons for The Amazing Race because teens may never get this extraordinary opportunity travel and bond with their parents. This would help to build familial relationships and to expose teens to other cultures. Not only will the parent and child have the chance to win one million dollars and compete in crazy obstacles, but the traveling will open teens’ eyes at a young age. They will be exposed to different cultures and appreciate how fortunate they are to live where they are. If a parent and child are on this race, they will create a bond that will never be broken, and teenagers will learn cultural lessons they’ll never forget.

A plethora of teens and their parents are interested and want to be on The Amazing Race, and they may never get this opportunity together again. Viewers would be impressed, as well, and would love to watch a parent-child version of The Amazing Race.

Thank you!

Mia Rapella